Society & Culture
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Caste Out: Christian Dalits in Pakistan
Caste discrimination is an under-analysed form of global racism both inside and outside its Hindu roots. This article considers how ancestral connections to Dalits create social exclusion and ‘othering’ for many Christians in modern Pakistan.
- Racism & Antisemitism
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The 2022 World Cup and Migrants' Rights in Qatar: Racialised Labour Hierarchies and the Influence of Racial Capitalism
Human rights discourses surrounding World Cup 2022 continue to paint a simplistic picture of migrant labour in the Gulf, where racism is defined through the white gaze.
- Racism & Antisemitism
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Racisms and Antiracisms: Beyond Euro-Americancentricity
We need to extend beyond the US and Europe in how we think about and understand racism and antiracism.
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
- Racism & Antisemitism
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Opposition to Covid Vaccines Transcends Left/Right Divisions
Anti-vax views now extend across the political spectrum – a trend with worrying public health and political implications.
- Covid-19
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Media
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The Case of Azeem Rafiq Points to a Long History of Racial Thinking in Cricket
Cricket's racialised cultural conflicts, originating in the colonial period, help us to understand more recent cases such as that of Azeem Rafiq.
- Racism & Antisemitism
- Sport
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Women's Access to Public Life is Restricted by Incivility and Discrimination
Women in the UK—particularly women in Parliament and public life—are subject to physical and verbal abuse, threats, and merciless assaults in the press. In what way is women's access to public life being restricted by these forms of intimidation?
- Elections & Campaigning
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
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Review: Labours of Love. The Crisis of Care, by Madeleine Bunting
The overwhelming significance of Labours of Love is the compelling passion Bunting brings to her case for confronting our careless world. It is a crucial document for our time.
- Political Parties
- Covid-19
- Progressive Politics
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Why we Need Data on Both Sex and Gender Identity
Sex is a fundamental demographic and explanatory variable, yet in recent years, sex has been overwritten by gender identity across a range of data collection exercises.
- Feminism & Gender
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In Defence of 'Elitism'
It is time to stand up and be proud of elitism: to uphold the arts, expertise, the fourth estate, and the democratic establishment for the benefit of all.
- Brexit
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Review: Invisible Women. Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed by Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
Bad data make bad science. Gender biased data distort research because it is predicated on the assumption that the human is male.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
